TeachNow is super soul food for your teacher’s heart.

“TeachNow is one of the most powerful educational experiences I ever had.”

— Tara Sophia Mohr, creator of Playing Big, taramohr.com

Are you able to handle…

The overwhelm—what to put in and what to leave out of your material?

The nuts and bolts stuff like story-telling, making ideas stick, staying focused, and handling difficult students?

The “fraud factor”—being passionate about a subject, maybe teaching from life experience, while being very aware of all you don’t know, and all the ways you fall short of your ideals?

The fear that your students will suck you dry?

The exhaustion from over-preparing and over-delivering; obsessing over your “performance” or student feedback?

The comparison and shame that plagues even the best teachers?

The discouragement when you bomb? (And we all bomb!)

Each of these obstacles makes your teaching less effective, less profitable, or more difficult for you… and often all three.

I created TeachNow as the program I wish I’d had.

I started teaching when my first book, The Woman’s Comfort Book, became a word-of-mouth best-seller. I was literally—as in the phone rang—called to teach. Yet I had no idea what I was doing AND I felt like a giant fraud. I was often the youngest person in the room and I sure wasn’t taking perfect care of myself so how could I teach this stuff? I would walk off the stage or out of the retreat center and tell myself, “That’s it. I will never do that again.”

Fast forward 20 or so years. I was in a peer support group with 5 amazing people and we were on our annual retreat. I was watching one of my friends—someone I revere—struggling to step fully into his role as teacher and I was amazed. It occurred to me—teachers of all kinds need support. And boy, do I love to provide support!

I enlisted my dear friend Michele Christensen to create with me. At 23, Michele was the protégé of one of the most influential coaches in the world. She has done everything from teaching yoga to teaching Fortune 100 executives how to stop being mean to each other. Her genius helped make this program so much better, and working together we brought TeachNow to over 650 teachers! But now Michele is parenting full-time, while I continue to refine and lead TeachNow.

“I started teaching singing at a music conservatory two years ago. The first year was filled with so much agony as I was constantly berating myself for failing as a teacher – despite the fact that my students loved my lessons and were getting better, I could only see how I was falling short of my own expectations of how a teacher ‘should’ be.

In my second year of teaching I came across TeachNow. I had been aware of it and questioned if it could live up to promises, so I didn’t buy it at first.

Finally, I was going to quit teaching, so I bought your programme. Right away, the material started to have an impact on me. I started to allow the teaching to happen rather than trying to wrestle it to the ground.

I have a joy in my teaching now which was absent before and that’s thanks to TeachNow. Thanks for a great, game-changing course.

Through TeachNow You Will…

Renew yourself as a teacher (or speaker or coach or writer—however you define “teacher”) if you’re burned out, bored or plateaued.

Gain concrete tools to improve your teaching, from planning to managing time to handling “difficult” students. Lots of practical tools!

Develop and own the content you truly wish to teach. Not what you think you “should” teach.

Own your own power without grandiosity or false modesty.

Discover your lineage and learn how to care for yourself as a teacher.

Build your receiving muscles so you allow in as much blessing as you give out.

Explore how to market as a teacher, as someone who wants to both make a good living and impact your world.

Discover a sustainable soulful way to teach that will change how you teach—and feel about teaching—forever.

Develop teaching as a way to sell products & services without feeling like a marketing sleaze.

Would YOU like to be free to share your work, to enjoy it, and to make a difference in your world? Starting right now? Then woo-to-the-hoo – you are in the right place!

“I’ve taken many courses on teaching and especially teaching online, and I can say without hesitation that TeachNow has been the one that vested me with the most valuable skills and information, which I was able to morph into rock solid results. I couldn’t recommend TeachNow enough. It will transform the way you share your expertise and gifts with the world.”

—Cigdem Kobu, Wicked Awesome Life & A Year With Myself, ayearwithmyself.com

Here’s what each version of TeachNow includes:

Either way, you get access to 6 beautifully-organized modules, with audio, transcripts, homework invites, and bonus resources:

TeachNow Module 1: Your Essential Inner Work as a Teacher

TeachNow Module 2: Transformational Teaching

TeachNow Module 3: Claiming Your Authority & Lineage

TeachNow Module 4: The Nuts & Bolts of Teaching

TeachNow Module 5: You Are the Vessel: Self-Care for Vibrant Teaching

TeachNow Module 6: Making Offers or Teaching NOW

The Fully-Guided version is $350, and runs for 10 weeks on the elegant Ruzuku platform, which allows you to interact with the other students taking the course as much or as little as you like. A new module is released every 2 weeks and is supported by a love-fueled high-octane-wisdom coaching call with Jennifer—so you actually apply what you are learning with plenty of flexibility for your schedule. We’ll also give you all 45 Master Teacher interviews and additional teaching tools you can read about below.

With the Self-Guided version for $250 you get all the modules at once, with a bonus of 10 of the Master Teacher interviews. Scaled down. Designed for self-motivated learners.

Sign up for the free test drive to get instant access to the TeachNow library, including a brand new Course Creation kit + much more! Plus be invited to the LIVE class on April 4th at 10am Pacific – Mark your calendars now!

Registration for TeachNow opens April 2nd.

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“TeachNow has completely shifted my perspective on teaching—both online and in-person. At ruzuku, we’re making online learning as engaging as possible—and the TeachNow philosophy and model have become essential to our work. Jen and Michele design powerful online learning experiences through deep content, structure and support, and energetic encouragement. We’re proud to host TeachNow as a laboratory for the continued design and development of ruzuku.”

Here’s how the program works:

A pre-recorded, nicely-edited, 60-75 minute class that will have you laughing, gasping, nodding your head, and scribbling like mad.

Speaking of scribbling, each module includes a transcript of the class so you can read and listen.

Handouts, Worksheets, and Audio/Video “extras” per module to further your learning. Go deeper if you wish, when you wish.

Homework Invitations to get you from inspiration into action.

Master Teacher Interviews: MANY students say these alone are worth the price of the course. Seasoned teachers from a variety of fields, teachers like Natalie Goldberg, Mark Nepo, Elizabeth Lesser, Keri Smith, and Meg Wheatley, in candid conversation about their challenges and personal lessons as teachers—the gold they learned the hard way. Transformational nuts-and-bolts delivered with healing transparency. Each interview gives you permission, inspiration, actionable ideas, and concrete mistakes to avoid. You get 10 with the self-study version & 45 with the fully-guided version.

Master Teacher Searchable Index: search the interviews for what you need help with in the moment. Need course design pointers? We’ve got you covered. Teaching spirituality? Time management? Hurting after a failure? You’ll find the support and tools you need—like your own personal library of support. And in each module, we offer you the best search terms to find the Master Teacher interviews that match that module. Of course, you can also simply browse the library of interviews for what speaks to you, or use the one click zip to get them all–>zoom!

5 Heart-Support Integration Calls with Jen & Super-Special guests: (fully-guided version only) 90 minutes LIVE to talk through what you need, get expert coaching, and ask all your questions. Totally worth the price of the course alone!

Module 1: Your Essential Inner Work as a Teacher

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This module includes:

What kind of teacher do you think you “need” to be?

How to be in the gap between how you want to teach and how you do teach

Where are you on the developmental path of the teacher?

The power of being a student-teacher

It will help you:

Tolerate uncertainty and mistakes in teaching

Know where you are on the developmental path, and where you might want to go next

Know how to see your stories about who and how you “have to be” as a teacher

Know how to be authentic and still be effective as a teacher

Module 2: Transformational Teaching

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This module includes:

Experiential exercises for creating a safe container and for regulating your own state

The Four Levels of Transformational Teaching: Information, Experience, Inspiration, and Transmission

How stories help access all four layers and transform students

How to build and maintain a safe container for your students’ transformation

Worksheet: The Four Levels of Teaching

It will help you:

Give your students “appropriate dosing”—not too much info, and not too little, at just the right pace

Create the perfect mix of information, inspiration, and experience in each of your programs

Learn what you transmit to your students underneath the words and the design of your course

Use stories to create profound, powerful teaching in any subject

Module 3: Claiming Your Authority & Lineage

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This module includes:

Identifying your rich, life-long lineage of influences, mentors, heroes, and anti-heroes; and taking your place within it

Appropriate dosing vs. being “the human blender”

A guided process to own what you know and be at peace with all you don’t

Worksheet: Your Lineage Worksheet

Handout: Remembering What You Know

It will help you:

Feel confident in your teaching

Forge a powerful practical connection with the people and influences that support your teaching

Have resources to draw upon anytime you run into an obstacle with your class, your students, or your marketing

Know what you’re ready to teach NOW

Module 4: The Nuts & Bolts of Teaching

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This module includes:

Structuring and organizing your material

Finding the sweet spot between planning and over-planning

Managing students (especially the difficult ones)

Teaching to different learning styles

Action Guide: How to Plan, Prepare, and Teach

Action Guide: From Vague to Vavoom: Planning a Program from Scratch

It will help you:

Easily and quickly create programs from nothing, even if you’ve never created one before

Walk step-by-step through teaching—Step. By. Step.

Create community and warm hospitality

Discover your natural style of teaching and use that style to thrive

Module 5: You Are the Vessel: Self-Care for Vibrant Teaching

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This module includes:

Recovering from, and preventing, burnout

Personal energy management

Handling projection and other challenges and opportunities

Feminine and Masculine elements of power (also known as “No more over-providing”)

Preparing to teach, and recovering afterwards

Action Guide: Caring For Your Vessel

It will help you:

Manage your own energy

Handle students’ projections onto you and other student challenges

Recognize and stop over-providing

Create strong, flexible boundaries

Create and sustain energy in the classroom

Fine-tune your self-care, systematically, so your teaching comes from a full tank

Module 6: Making Offers, or Teaching NOW

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This module includes:

The high-integrity way to get “butts in seats”

How to make a living as a teacher

Visualization of your future as a teacher

Sales strategies

Worksheet: The Offer Worksheet

It will help you:

Market with integrity so you more readily fill your offers

Experience marketing as a form of teaching

Eliminate unproductive beliefs about earning a living as a teacher

Create a sustainable business model

Craft your offer, step-by-step

If you participate in the Fully-Guided version of TeachNow:

Fully-Guided means you get the 5 Live Integration Coaching Calls with Jen Louden & her super-special super-helpful guests. You’ll have an opportunity for hot-seat coaching, pin-pointed to your precise desires on the teacher’s path.

These calls will catapult your teaching forward because:

You’ll have structure to help you apply what you’re learning—as in, “Oh, there’s a live call coming up: What do I need to know in order to actually use this material?”

You get your questions answered LIVE on the calls, and keep the recordings, so you can get nitty on your gritty—There is no one-size-fits-all teaching in TeachNow!

You can email your questions ahead of time if you’re unable to join a call live, and listen to the answers when you have time

You’ll have a sense of connection and community to keep the wind in your sails

All live coaching calls are recorded, so you can refer back to them as needed.

The fully-guided program is delivered via the innovative, interactive Ruzuku learning platform.

Crisp easy-to-use interface and organization

A new module is opened every 2 weeks, giving you structure and gentle reminders to do the work

You get to check off your completed actions in the program (Don’t you love to do that? It’s like a high-five!)

Excellent “concierge” tech support—No more frustration with downloads

You connect and interact with your fellow student-teachers and with Jen—No more feeling alone or lost

You will have access to the program forever, and everything is easily downloadable—Listen anywhere, again and again!

But wait! There’s more!

Bonus #1: Top 10 Teaching Questions + Amazing Answers. This document is gold. Several students told us it was their favorite part of the course.

Bonus #2: After the Retreat Is Over: Energy Alchemy for Teachers. This is an exclusive audio created JUST for TeachNow by the amazing Hiro Boga, our guide in working with energy. It’s a half-hour audio meditation to clear your energy body and energy field after teaching your next workshop or retreat.

And don’t forget the amazing Master Teacher Interviews—45 of them—candid, personal, and actionable; with compelling, seasoned teachers who don’t usually talk this way about their process. All searchable by what you need when you need it. Your very own support team!

TeachNow will give you:

More confidence as a teacher—No more waiting to be ready

Effective ways to organize and deliver your content—No more drowning your students with the fire hose of too much information

Understanding of how to enroll students, with integrity

Far more resilience to criticism from students, and from your own harsh inner voice

Precise steps to prepare energetically and renew yourself after teaching

Companionship on the journey so you don’t feel alone or uniquely screwed-up when you go through the inevitable challenges

And TeachNow will help you:

Design programs that effectively meet your students’ real needs

Dissolve the comparison urge and stand in your own true authority

Gather feedback and evolve your course without reinventing the wheel every time

Understand where you are on the teacher’s path, and what your next growth steps are

Sign up for the free test drive to get instant access to the TeachNow library, including a brand new Course Creation kit + much more! Plus be invited to the LIVE class on April 4th at 10am Pacific – Mark your calendars now!

Registration for TeachNow opens April 2nd.

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We’re guessing you’ve got a few questions about TeachNow.

Perhaps you’re wondering…

Q: “What if I already know I want the course? How do I register right now?”

We love your enthusiasm! Sign up on this page and we’ll email you when enrollment opens April 2nd. Return to this same page any time between April 2nd and 9th and there will be buttons you can click to buy either the Fully-Guided or the Self-Guided program.

“Wow Jen. I am really impressed with the amount of value in the TeachNow Library. You have such a beautiful way of marketing and it feels so authentic and inviting to me. I’ve heard so many lovely things about you that I wanted to reach out and say hello and thank you for your integrity, wisdom and generosity.”

—Jac McNeil, coach women solopreneurs, www.jacmcneil.com

Q: “What’s the sampler class on April 4th about? How do I register?”

It’s a real live TeachNow-style class, The Triple Bottom Line of Teaching: More Contribution, Income, and Evolution – with Jen Louden and special guests. There will be cool prizes and games and balloons and snacks. At least virtual snacks. And a special surprise for you if you attend in real time… LIVE! When you sign up on this page for the mailing list, we’ll email you with the call-in details when we get closer to the date of the class.

Q: “I’m an experienced teacher. Will these materials be too basic for me?”

Experienced teachers who are ready to stop suffering from burnout, fatigue, self-doubt, and under-earning are a huge part of the TeachNow community. Each module has material that will meet you right where you’re at, to create a renaissance in your teaching work. Many TeachNow students have had considerable teaching experience—in traditional settings and at the college level, some up to 30 years or more.

“There was no good reason why I needed TeachNow. I have been teaching for over 20 years, yet I trusted my intuition to sign up—thankfully. This course was so much more than I expected or dared to hope, so personally and professionally transformative.”

—Lianne Raymond, Coach, High School Teacher, Yoga Teacher

Q: “I don’t think of myself as a teacher. Is this for me?”

If your work involves service, transformation, sales, or healing, you are—or can become—a “teacher” within our definition—and we think you will benefit from doing so. You don’t have to lead classes per se, and you definitely don’t have to be a part of the traditional educational system. Many TeachNow alum don’t think of themselves as teachers, but as artists, writers, coaches, massage therapists, entrepreneurs, or designers. However they all feel that interacting in an educational way with others is important to their success.

“TeachNow will change your life, and that’s no dramatization. It is soul fuel. As a Coach, I wondered if TeachNow was going to be aimed more at teachers and less at coaches. It was a perfect fit. And the exercise we did calling up our guides and teachers? I use that before every coaching session and it feels powerful and calms me down, every single time.”

—Kerry Demetriou, Coach and Teacher

Q: “If I don’t yet know what to teach, should I wait to take this class?”

NO! If you’re ready to engage with the questions and challenges of your teaching work, you’re ready for TeachNow. If those challenges include, “I can’t decide what to teach,” or “I know the topic, but I have no idea how to get started teaching,” the TeachNow tools will help you get into action.

“It is tricky to encapsulate all that has happened since I took TeachNow… I have grown about a million brain-cells. So many new ways of building a place to stand as a teacher, how I draw in support, what I look to offer and how I look on my role as a teacher. I feel a confidence in my possibilities, a deep knowing about how it is time to step up and not hide anymore behind perceived inexpertness (See, I don’t even care I made up a word!) TeachNow has given me the ovaries to get my work into the world and I am so deeply grateful. I’m booking my first in-person workshop this week.”

—Jane Cunningham, artist and storyteller, reframingyourstory.com

Q: “What if the course doesn’t work for me?”

Listen to the material and complete all 5 homework invitations (one per module.) If you still feel the course has not made a meaningful contribution to your life as a teacher, we will promptly refund your money upon receipt of all your completed homework—as long as we receive it by July 1st.

“I wish Teach Now had been available to me twenty years ago! Jen and Michele have compiled rich resources to guide new teachers into confidence and help more seasoned teachers re-assess both path and goals. The bonus: having two teachers who have been at it for a long time—and who work from the heart—to bounce ideas and questions off of.”

Bonus #1: Top 10 Teaching Questions + Amazing Answers

Bonus #2: After the Retreat Is Over: Energy Alchemy for Teachers

Guided meditation created for TeachNow by Hiro Boga to help you restore after teaching

not included

YOUR INVESTMENT:

$350

$250

Registration for Teach

Now opens April 2nd.

“As a yoga teacher, I didn’t realize how much I’d been minimizing my role as a teacher (not just an instructor of yoga poses) until TeachNow. Jen and Michele’s brilliance (plus the wisdom in the teacher interviews, which are worth the purchase price alone) gave me the permission and confidence to step fully into my power. TeachNow has been more instrumental to my business than any other eCourse I’ve ever taken (and I’ve taken many)!”

—Anna Guest-Jelley, Founder of Curvy Yoga, curvyyoga.com

It’s time to take action.

TeachNow registration will close Tuesday, April 9th at 5pm Pacific. A new group of engaged, eclectic and loving people will be taking action to bring their gifts to one of the world’s great needs—while taking great care of themselves.

Will you be among them?

Haven’t you waited long enough to teach? And in a way that leaves you confident and energized, rather than exhausted and doubting yourself? And in a way that helps you build your business and flourish, if that’s important to you?

There IS another way, and you’re about to learn it. Can’t wait to see you on the other side!

Sign up for the free test drive to get instant access to the TeachNow library, including a brand new Course Creation kit + much more! Plus be invited to the LIVE class on April 4th at 10am Pacific – Mark your calendars now!

Registration for TeachNow opens April 2nd.

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TeachNow Delivers!

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